Effective Leadership In Turbulent Times - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 May 2009
What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

time or another have comprised the Fortune 100 since 1955 as well as some 90 non-U.S. based corporations. From the larger base, the authors selected 50 organizations whose experiences met the criteria for a stall and whose profiles were... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

researchers credit to the early actions of local political leadership and governmental agencies that encouraged public-private housing partnerships. Different locales do seem to have developed different conceptions of what is appropriate... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

today's managers are trying to implement third-generation strategies through second-generation organizations with first-generation management. In an earlier study we analyzed the evolution of CEO Jack Welch's thinking at General Electric... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

we’re good at and enjoy, we may discover that all the meetings we used to hold in the office sucked up too much time or that a trip to the children’s museum wasn’t the key to bringing the family joy. “Rather... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

effective transportation, or space to put garbage. Rapid urbanization will only accentuate these shortages. How should we address the problems in the confluence of these two trends? One approach is to expect... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

pressures. Reframing The Mission The most aggressive form of growth, developing entirely new products for markets you don't yet serve, requires both the longest time horizon and the biggest leap of faith. During George's tenure View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

really begin to have a deep effect both on the emotions in a business deal and on the ethics. Business people think in terms of problem solving and practical solutions, so... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

updating the 10 disruptive forces identified in the first edition, showing how managers can address these challenges, and describing how public confidence in the market system could be rebuilt. The revised... View Details